About this title: This text documents the linguistic consequences of contact between different languages, focusing on what happens to the languages themselves. The author outlines the origins and results of contact-induced language change, extreme language mixture and language death.
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN-13:9780878408542ISBN:0878408541
Description: Very Good. 0878408541 Very Slight Shelf Wear, Text is Crisp, Clean and Free of any Markings, Excellent Copy! ! Buy with confidence! Please leave feedback after your purchase. It helps other buyers know we are a responsible and reliable seller. Thank you! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780878408542ISBN:0878408541
Description: Surveying situations in which language contact arises, Sarah G. Thomason focuses on what happens to the languages themselves: sometimes nothing, sometimes the incorporation of new words, sometimes the spread of new sounds and sentence structures acro... read more
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